Specialty ingredients and excipients

Enhance formulation with our specialty ingredients and excipients

Choosing the right pharmaceutical excipients can be the difference between success and failure of a new drug. Our specialty ingredients and excipients offering help enhance the performance of your formulation by improving stability, solubility, bioavailability (including with advanced bioavailability enhancers), and taste—especially for orally disintegrating tablets, films, and liquids. Our high-quality portfolio includes cGMP-compliant vitamins, derivatives, flavors, and taste modulators to address the most complex challenges. We work closely with our customers to develop safe, effective formulations, supporting both small and large molecules with quality, regulatory, and technical expertise. From improving functionality to optimizing taste profiles for better patient compliance, we help our customers formulate with success.

Pharma-grade vitamin excipients for robust drug formulations

Our vitamins as functional excipients deliver proven benefits in stability, viscosity, and impurity control - backed by cGMP manufacturing, deep regulatory documentation, and expert support from early development through to the final drug product.


 

Ascorbic acid and alpha-tocopherol as nitrite scavengers

Navigating nitrosamine risk mitigation is an unprecedented challenge for the pharmaceutical industry. We are here to provide high quality antioxidants and technical expertise to help you succeed in addressing nitrosamines in your drug products. Vitamin C and E are safe and effective nitrite scavengers.

Sodium ascorbate: The stabilizer of choice for radiopharmaceuticals

Radiopharmaceuticals are vital to precision medicine, but face challenges such as complex logistics, short radioisotope half-lives, and difficult administration. The main issue is stability. Sodium ascorbate is an effective antioxidant that can act as a free radical scavenger, protecting radiopharmaceuticals against degradation.

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Making medicines taste better

Taste plays a key role in patient compliance. To improve acceptance and meet the rising demand for patient-friendly dosage forms, we co-create formulations that consider the patient experience from the beginning of the drug development journey. Our pharma-specific portfolio of taste solutions has been carefully curated for pharmaceutical excipients, and is supported by technical, quality, and regulatory expert services.

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